BRAIN STEM Workshop, Chicago, Illinois, October 14-17, 2015

奥巴马总统的大脑倡议(Brain；通过推进创新的神经技术进行大脑研究)旨在支持旨在促进对正常大脑功能的了解的项目。一个研讨会将于2015年10月14-17日在伊利诺伊州芝加哥举行，旨在确定主要是本科院校的教职员工和学生可以为大脑倡议做出独特贡献的领域。研讨会的中心目标是加强PUI对大脑倡议中描述的研究挑战的参与。与推进大脑计划的目标一致，研讨会将专注于开发方法来推进NSF的使命，即准备一支具有科学素养的劳动力队伍。来自全美PUI的24名研究人员将被邀请参加关于研究、神经技术、计算方法和本科生跨学科培训的讨论。研讨会将在伊利诺伊州芝加哥举行，3天后将举行一年一度的神经科学学会(SFN)会议，该会议也计划在芝加哥举行。研讨会参与者将报告他们的讨论、结论和建议，旨在增加PUI教师和他们的本科生对大脑倡议的参与。该报告将在美国国家科学基金会网站((http://www.nsf.gov/bio/pubs/reports/index.jsp)上向公众公布，并通过本科生神经科学学院网站(http://www.funfaculty.org/drupal/)分发给科学界。研讨会的成果还将汇编成一份自办演示文稿，在当地的非政府组织联盟、学术会议和国家会议上传播。预计研讨会的讨论结果将通过与出席森林论坛年度会议的研究人员的对话来传播。

President Obama's BRAIN Initiative (BRAIN; Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) is directed at supporting projects that seek to advance understanding of normal brain function. A workshop to identify areas where faculty and students from primarily undergraduate institutions (PUI) can make unique contributions to the BRAIN Initiative will be held on October 14-17, 2015 in Chicago, IL. The central goal of the workshop is to enhance PUI involvement in the research challenges described in the Brain Initiative. Consonant with advancing the goals of the BRAIN Initiative, the workshop will focus on developing ways to further NSF's mission to prepare a scientifically literate workforce.A diverse group of twenty-four researchers from PUIs throughout the United States will be invited to participate in discussions of research, neurotechnology, computational approaches, and interdisciplinary training of undergraduates. The workshop will be held in Chicago, Illinois 3 days before the annual Society for Neuroscience (SFN) conference, also scheduled to be held in Chicago. Workshop participants will produce a report of their discussions, conclusions and recommendations aimed at increasing the participation of PUI faculty and their undergraduate research students in the BRAIN Initiative. The report will be made available to the public on the NSF website (http://www.nsf.gov/bio/pubs/reports/index.jsp ), and distributed to the scientific community through the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience website (http://www.funfaculty.org/drupal/ ). The workshop outcomes will also be compiled into a self-running presentation for dissemination at local PUI consortia, academic conferences, and national meetings. It is anticipated that outcomes of the discussion at the workshop will be disseminated through conversations with researchers attending the SFN annual meeting.